And So It Began......

[DeSwiss]

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. excellent. nt

[ZombieHorde]

2. Funny. nt

[rug]

3. Fast forward.

[DeSwiss]

4. Why don't we.....

...just fast forward to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requerimiento">point:

[rug]

5. Because we're 400 years beyond it.

[DeSwiss]

6. "We're" beyond it?

So you're speaking for me and everyone else, eh?

Fine.

[rug]

9. The "we" is yours.

[struggle4progress]

7. Cortés, of course, could never have defeated the Aztecs, had not those he defeated earlier

joined with him against the Aztec empire. There was a great deal to dislike about the conquistador, but the various peoples subjected first by the Aztecs, and next by Cortés, seemed to have no difficulty allying with Cortés when he set out to conquer the Aztecs. He marched into the center of the empire with thousands of the Aztecs enemies beside him. It is true that he had some slight technological advantages, but he had only a handful of horses and cannon; and his advantages could not have withstood a sustained assault by superior numbers, as is shown by several of his setbacks. Prior to his second conquest of the city, he again recruited troops from among the enemies of the Aztecs

[laconicsax]

10. Plus he had smallpox on his side. n/t

[struggle4progress]

11. That smallpox was decisive may be a credible thesis.

[struggle4progress]

8. Got some good music from it

Marian Anderson - My Lord, What A Morning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJoDR704-BA&feature=related

Joan Baez "My lord What a morning"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEgyRg2AfLQ